2. Railways

Slamdoors and semaphores

With the withdrawal of the mkI based slam door stock taking place at a rapid rate, I took a week and a half to explore parts of the Southern Region taking in as many of the slam door sets and remaining semaphore signals as I could find. 20/3 - 1/4/2005
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    This light engine move, 0V62 1207 Eastleigh Yard to Fawley, caught Martin the signalman by surprise as it was running about 90 minutes early. It will wait at Fawley for its train.
    Turning round for the going away shot and the down starting gantry and 66012 has the road to Fawley with the important route indicated by the taller post.
    66012 comes back with 7 loaded bitumen tanks and 11 loaded oil tanks forming 6V62 1318 TFO Fawley to Tavistock Yard. I thanked Martin profusely for his hospitality as I suspect I had outstayed my welcome! This was the last train of the day and Martin was closing the 'box and going home.